How to choose an operation and maintenance monitoring platform that suits you? Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana

As an operation and maintenance person, operation and maintenance monitoring is the most important thing. Only if you do a good job in operation and maintenance monitoring can you sleep well. There are many open source monitoring software on the market. Today I will share with you 3 relatively easy-to-use open source operation and maintenance monitoring platforms.

• ZABBIX
• Prometheus
• Grafana (to be precise, it is not a monitoring tool, but a visualization platform that can integrate multiple data sources for visual display)

Some of you may have heard of them but have never actually used them. In order to let everyone experience the three operation and maintenance monitoring platforms more intuitively, I have set up the environment. You can log in to the website to experience them. The accounts I assign are currently administrator accounts (the account management function has been blocked).

Monitoring platform introduction and experience address

1. What is Zabbix?

Zabbix is ​​an open source network monitoring software used to monitor various network services, servers and network devices. It provides the following main functions:

• Real-time monitoring: Zabbix can monitor the performance indicators of network devices and servers in real time, such as CPU usage, memory utilization, network traffic, etc.
• Data Collection: It can collect various types of data, including numbers, text, and log files.
• Alarms and notifications: Zabbix can issue alarms based on set conditions and notify operation and maintenance personnel via email, WeChat, scripts, SMS, etc.

How to use: Install the Zabbix server and agent (optional), and use the web interface to configure monitoring items and triggers, set alarm rules, and view monitoring data and alarm information.

Experience address: The assigned account has editing permissions, and everyone can play at will.

2. Prometheus

Prometheus is an open source system monitoring and alerting tool. It has the following main features:

• Multidimensional data model: Prometheus uses a multidimensional data model to store time series data, which makes it very flexible in querying and visualization.
• Powerful query language: PromQL is a query language provided by Prometheus, which can be used to analyze and query monitoring data.
• Alarm management: Prometheus has flexible alarm management functions, which can set alarm rules based on monitoring data and notify relevant personnel in a timely manner.

Usage: Install the Prometheus server, configure monitoring targets, indicators and alarm rules in the configuration file, and write query statements on the visualization platform to display indicators. Prometheus cannot modify the configuration in the web interface, and can only modify the relevant configuration by modifying the configuration file

Experience address: The assigned account has editing permissions, and everyone can play at will.

3. Grafana

Grafana is an open source data visualization and monitoring platform. Its main functions include:

• Data visualization: Grafana supports multiple data sources, such as MySQL, Zabbix, Prometheus, etc., and can visualize data from various data sources, including charts, dashboards, etc.
• Dashboards and panels: Users can create customized dashboards and panels to display monitoring data and indicators.
• Data query: Grafana provides powerful data query capabilities, allowing users to extract data from data sources using SQL or similar query languages.

How to use: Deploy a Grafana server, configure data sources, create dashboards and panels, and set up alert rules.

Experience address: The assigned account has editing permissions, and everyone can play at will.

Summary

The operation and maintenance industry cannot do without operation and maintenance tools, and the most important one among the operation and maintenance tools is the monitoring platform. No matter whether you use an open source commercial platform, you should use it. If you use the platform well, your work efficiency will be improved by 50%. If you have development capabilities, the Zabbix and Prometheus I shared above both support secondary development, which can be completed by calling the API interface.